Name: Pawn Stars: BIG MONEY FOR RARE SCOTTISH PISTOLS (Season 17) | History
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Every once in a while, I get a crazy lead on something I just have to follow up on.

A couple of days ago, Alex, my weapons expert, called to tell me he's got something I'm going to love lined up across the pond.

So I hopped on a plane and I'm here in London.

Peters, the father, Rowley and Red also work with him much like I work with my father.

And in fact, Peter and my father have been friends for about 40 years, So I've known this family a long time.

From the looks of it, you definitely have some incredible stuff here.

If you follow through into a back room, some of the rarest pieces we have no backroom.

The business is a family business which was started over 50 years ago by my father.

Essentially, we deal in arms and armor from Roman and Greek times.

Gone all the way through to the 19th century were excited when Alex called.

We certainly knew we had some pieces which might interest them.

Oh, so this is where the real fancy stuff is that the pieces here have fascinating provenance, some of which is royal.

One of the pieces I'd like to show you guys is this pair of pistols here by John Christie.

That is some crazy work made in Scottish style Baio Scott, but made actually in his own private workshop in the Tower of London, George Third commissioned John Christie to come down from Scotland to make dress pistols and such, like for diplomatic gifts, you'd never fire anything like that.

The fire they were designed to look good at in basically in formal wear.

Sure, no maker would ever make a pair of pistols, you know, unless they were purely functional.

Interestingly, they have a proof mark just here, which is actually the private Tower of London proof mark, which was mostly done for royal pieces.

Assuming steel barrels, they're all steel.

And then these air gilt brass stops Very unusual.

Have wonderful grotesque face on the on the bus with pistols in all of this.

In the style of these pistols is traditionally seen.

You don't find all still pistols anywhere else.

So this is made in 1600 it's made for the Saxon court in Germany.

It's one of only a few that have ever come on to the art market.

This is a walnut stock is inlaid with staghorn, and then the decoration is dogs and gross s faces chasing rabbits and so on, so that that's a wheel lock.

This is a wheel look about 1600 date and Wheelock's typically are quite a bit bigger.

They'll that's probably 1/2 scale so that the purpose of making it smaller was probably for a boy, really, for a boy.

What's really interesting about the mechanism is you wind it.

This is a tightly wound spring that starts once you let it go.

It starts to spin and there's a little door here.

So the wheels spinning, the pirates touching down on it and all the sparks come up Which lights The prime in powder which fires the gun.

Only three have ever come on to the old market.

Okay, Um, I think I'll pass on this one, but comes for these.

Great condition on beautiful works of art.

Wouldn't take £80,000 but I would take £90,000.

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